Natural Disasters


Is Mankind To Blame?  

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  1. 1. Is Mankind To Blame?

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    • Its the Planet We Live On So Its Gonna Happen
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In the light of the Pakistan Earthquake and the US Hurricane disasters......are we......the people who inhabit this planet to blame???

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Can somebody please explain (factually) how humans can possibly influence an earthquake?

STOP looking at the ground every 2 secs!!! :)

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god could be punishing us... In the book of revalations (the last book), god spreads terror throughout the world, then the world ends. maybe the world will end soon?

not that i belive in god or anything..

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I do.

Sorry if I am taking it the wrong way but it not bad or embarrassing to have a faith.

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god could be punishing us... In the book of revalations (the last book), god spreads terror throughout the world, then the world ends. maybe the world will end soon?

not that i belive in god or anything..

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Earthquakes- not even a chance, not to our knowledge at least, and i highly doubt some government is behind earthquakes

Hurricanes- Hurricane Katrina and Rita weren't even that bad, sure Hurricane Katrina hit an unlikely spot, but it wasn't an uber strong hurricane when it hit land. Global Warming might be making it possible for more frequent severe hurricanes, but just remember this. Hurricane Camille, sustained winds 200 mph, wind gusts 220 mph. When we get hurricanes constantly reaching that, then we have to look at our actions because then something is really wrong. Right now we're only starting to see how bad we've ruined this planet.

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Can somebody please explain (factually) how humans can possibly influence an earthquake?

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i dont know, but i would venture a guess that 1 or 2 nukes detonated underground, ohh like the ones in nuke tests done by pakistand and india COULD affect something underground.

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Why don't people realize that all natural disasters are normal and part of the death/life circle of the earth? Why'd dinos' die? why'd mammoths die? why are esmkimos extinct? (lol, jk). People who have an obsession with the environment escalate a message of impending doom upon us all. Bull. That said, I do believe we should take care  of our natural resources and shouldn't pollute but we humans will one day ceast to exist weather we had something to do with it or not.

In conclusion: The earth is perishiable. We are too.

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i think people have a problem with this because we are smarter than dinos and mammoths. I think we cant stand the fact that there are still things we cant control and many of us cringe at the thought that we can land on the moon, but we cant build a building strong enough to withstand an earthquake or heavy wind.

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No way, no how.

Earthquakes - Considering techtonic plate relationships, there is no way we could possibly create an earthquake. Sure, you can detonate a nuke and make a hole and sound that everybody can feel, but it'll never be enough to affect the plates, they're just too massive.

Hurricanes- Sure, the earth could be warming, as it has done in the past, whether it is our fault or not is up for discussion, but I seriously seriously doubt that we have anything to do with it. This may or may not necessarily lead to hurricanes, nobody has really been able to figure it out yet.

Now God on the otherhand... who knows. But if the world ends, then I guess I may not need to worry so much about that test I'm taking tommarow... :D

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Why don't people realize that all natural disasters are normal and part of the death/life circle of the earth? Why'd dinos' die? why'd mammoths die? why are esmkimos extinct? (lol, jk). People who have an obsession with the environment escalate a message of impending doom upon us all. Bull. That said, I do believe we should take care of our natural resources and shouldn't pollute but we humans will one day ceast to exist weather we had something to do with it or not.

In conclusion: The earth is perishiable. We are too.

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It's all Bush's fault!!

Him and halliburton are behind all these disasters, yes, including the hurricane, mudslides and earthquakes!

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It's all Bush's fault!!

I agree to a point!

But..........he dont have a 'trigger' button for Earthquakes??......at least I hope NOT!!!.........LOL :p

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No way, no how. 

Earthquakes - Considering techtonic plate relationships, there is no way we could possibly create an earthquake.  Sure, you can detonate a nuke and make a hole and sound that everybody can feel, but it'll never be enough to affect the plates, they're just too massive.

Hurricanes-  Sure, the earth could be warming, as it has done in the past, whether it is our fault or not is up for discussion, but I seriously seriously doubt that we have anything to do with it.  This may or may not necessarily lead to hurricanes, nobody has really been able to figure it out yet.

Now God on the otherhand... who knows.  But if the world ends, then I guess I may not need to worry so much about that test I'm taking tommarow... :D

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tectonic plates are massive, at first glance it seems like no force on earth could move them. But they do move, and thats what causes earthquakes,. Ive heard that just a handful of nukes placed just at the right place and detonated just at the right time, could cause a chain reaction that could destroy our planet in a number of days- hours even! ... So is it really that far fetched to think that a couple of nukes could shift a small pice of tectonic plate, even a metre to cause the earthquake in Pakistan?

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tectonic plates are massive, at first glance it seems like no force on earth could move them.  But they do move, and thats what causes earthquakes,. Ive heard that just a handful of nukes placed just at the right place and detonated just at the right time, could cause a chain reaction that could destroy our planet in a number of days- hours even! ... So is it really that far fetched to think that a couple of nukes could shift a small pice of tectonic plate, even a metre to cause the earthquake in Pakistan?

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Nah I don't think so. Consider how much mass you're talking about moving and how far you're moving it. A meter is a very very very long distance in geologic movement terms, and nukes are much too brief to cause any serious movement. What is needed is something with lots of power that is sustained over a long period of time.

Also, that area is probably one of the more earthquake prone places. You've got the Indian plate ramming pretty much straight up into the Eurasian plate, as it has been doing for millions of years (ever wonder where the Himalayas came from?) Naturally, this makes earthquakes when the pressure becomes too great and something gives away.

The orange square is the epicenter, the purple line is the plate boundry. No doubt that this was caused by tectonic movements.

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